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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde · 216 pages
Algernon pretends to be Jack's troublesome younger brother, in Wilde's satirical assault on nineteenth-century fashions, manners, and morality.
Happy Days
Samuel Beckett · 64 pages
"Two characters--a woman buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and a man who revolves around the mound in which she is placed--probe the tenuous connections that hold people to people and people to the universe in Happy Days"--Cover.
Antigone
Sophocles · 80 pages
Publisher's description: Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting new translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek and poetically striking
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand · 225 pages
Cyrano de Bergerac, verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. It was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woma
The Bald Soprano
Eugene Ionesco · 96 pages
Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugene Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. Now his classic one acts The Bald Soprano and The Lesson are available in an exciting new translation by Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tina Howe, noted heir of Ionesco's absurdist vision, acclaimed by Frank Rich as "one of the smartest playwrights we ha
Barefoot in the Park
Neil Simon · 95 pages
Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams · 145 pages
Williams's classic play begins with Blanche DuBois's arrival in New Orleans to stay with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. The determinedly genteel Blanche is shocked by their lower-class lifestyle—and by Stanley's frequently aggressive behavior. As Blanche's secrets catch up with her, a seedy reality trumps her love for romance.
Translations
Brian Friel · 72 pages
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camp, a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers is making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this opera
The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman · 107 pages
An acting edition of the 1939 drama in which brothers Oscar and Ben Hubbard steal money from their ailing brother-in-law in order to fund a cotton mill, only to be caught by their sister Regina who demands they give her a seventy-five percent share of the business in exchange for keeping them out of prison.
Le Barbier de Séville
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais · 111 pages
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard · 126 pages
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of
A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee · 170 pages
Agnes and Tobias are long married and remain together out of habit. Agnes' sister, Claire, lives with them and takes refuge from life's perils in alcohol and self-lacerating wit. One night Julia, Agnes and Tobias' daughter, comes home, escaping from her fourth marriage. They are visited by Edna and Harry, their oldest friends, who are deeply disturbed by a great shock they have had. The door is lo
Antigone
Jean Anouilh · 74 pages
Apre s Sophocle, J. Anouilh reprend le mythe d'Antigone. Fille d'Oedipe et de Jocaste, la jeune Antigone est en re volte contre la loi humaine qui interdit d'enterrer le corps de son fre re Polynice. Pre sente e sous l'Occupation en 1944, cette pie ce met en sce ne l'absolu d'un personnage en re volte face au pouvoir, a l'injustice et a la me diocrite .
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello · 99 pages
"A new translation of Pirandello's absurdist metatheatrical play "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore" (1921), along with translations of two related short stories, the play's preface, a novel fragment of the same name and related correspondance. Includes an introduction and select bibliography"--
Trifles
Susan Glaspell · 30 pages
It's a play. Considered by the McDougal Littlell 9th lit for CA textbook as an early feminists play. Textbook writes of dramitic irony and making inferences for the 15 year olds amonst us.
You Can't Take it With You
Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman · 72 pages